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Husband of Wayne village president won’t be charged in Aug. 10 shooting death of neighbor’s dog

The husband of a west suburban village president who shot dead a neighbor’s dog last month won’t be charged in the case, Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser announced today.

Mosser, noting that the Kane County sheriff’s office had “left no stone unturned” during the investigation, said video evidence and an independent witness corroborated the story of Hal Phipps, who claimed he feared for his life when he shot the dog Aug. 10 on his property in the village of Wayne.

“It is my belief that the evidence now shows that Mr. Phipps feared for his safety and his life and was legally justified in the shooting of Ludwig,” Mosser said at a news conference.

Phipps is the husband of Wayne Village President Eileen Phipps.

The shooting happened while Ludwig and his sibling, Philotimo –both Dogo Argentino pack-hunting dogs — were outside. Their owner, Joe Petit, was inside in his basement office at the time.

A close friend of Petit’s, Kathleen Czaplewski, said that at the time of the shooting she was paddling with Ludwig and Philotimo in the Fox River, which flows past Petit’s property. But Mosser said the evidence in the case shows that the dogs were on Phipps’ property at the time of the shooting.

Stefano Esposito has more on the incident that has riled the suburb here.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot today introduced former San Antonio schools Supt. Pedro Martinez as the new chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools. The announcement was made this morning at Benito Juarez High School, Martinez’s alma mater.

The family of Miguel Cisneros, a 19-year-old college student who drowned after jumping off a pier at a Rogers Park beach last month, is suing the Chicago Park District. Had there been life rings available Cisneros’ death could have been prevented, his family says.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed wide-ranging legislation overhauling Illinois’ energy sector today, as the state works to address the effects of climate change and establish clean energy standards. The legislation sets Illinois on a path to 100% clean energy by 2050.

Lightfoot’s plan to use the threat of civil lawsuits to target Chicago gangs was shunted off to the City Council’s Rules Committee yesterday, slowing down the mayor’s latest plan to address violence here. Critics say young people would be unfairly targeted by the lawsuits because their names are included in CPD’s deeply flawed gang database.

Mondelez International and members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union say they have reached a tentative agreement that could end a strike against the company’s Nabisco operations. The walkout by members of the union started in August and has involved six locations nationwide, including the Chicago bakery in Addison.

By the end of the second week of the school year, more than 5,600 CPS students had been directed to quarantine because of potential in-school exposure to COVID-19, according to new data made public yesterday. Those quarantines represent about 2% of the 290,000 students at non-charter schools.

Robert Falls, who spent 35 years as the creative force behind Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is stepping down as artistic director effective next summer. The move will coincide with the end of the 2021-22 season.

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Actor with Chicago roots plans South Side performance space

Actor Harry Lennix III, who stars in the TV show “The Blacklist,” is advancing a dream that he said will honor his roots in Chicago: Building a performing arts center for African American culture on the South Side.

Lennix has submitted a zoning proposal to take over a two-story warehouse at 4343 S. Cottage Grove Ave. In a partnership with Chicago developer Keith Giles and contractor Michael Wordlaw, Lennix would turn the old Marshall Field warehouse into a 350-seat theater with a smaller performance space of about 100 seats.

The venue would have a tie-in with the Chicago Public Schools. “I’m a former CPS teacher. I taught music there,” said Lennix. The Northwestern University graduate attained notice here at the Goodman Theatre and elsewhere before moving on to work in New York and Los Angeles.

A rendering of the Lillian Marcie Center, 4343 S. Cottage Grove Ave. Nia Architects

It would be called the Lillian Marcie Center, a reference to his mother, Lillian, and a mentor, Marcella “Marcie” Gillie on the South Side. Lennix said he’s raised about 60% of the funds needed for a roughly $20 million project.

Giles, who has long been active in the South Loop and Near South Side, said he hopes to start construction at the building in early 2021 and complete the project about a year later. He said he’s working on tax credits and incentives from federal, state and city programs.

David Roeder has more on the project here.

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Yesterday, we asked you: What’s the best way to enjoy the remaining days of warm weather in Chicago before the temperatures drop? Here’s what some of you said…

“Enjoy the White Sox’s (hopeful) deep playoff run.” — Jeff Sabin

“Lincoln park zoo, people-watching anywhere, taking a walk before the sun goes down and bike riding.” — Mary Goldsmith

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Jamie Mosser said she’d reviewed the “dozens upon dozens” of emails and phone calls in support of the slain dog, she’d seen the “Justice for Ludwig” signs dotted about town and she said she is herself a dog lover.

But in the end, after a weekslong investigation that left “no stone unturned,” Kane County’s top prosecutor said Wednesday that the facts prevented her from filing charges against the husband of the village of Wayne President Eileen Phipps.

“The evidence that we have now shows that Mr. [Hal] Phipps feared for his safety and his life and was legally justified in the shooting of Ludwig,” Mosser said in announcing her decision.

For weeks, many in and around the tiny west suburban town of Wayne had been calling for criminal charges against Hal Phipps, who has admitted to shooting Ludwig, a Dogo Argentino pack-hunting dog, on Aug. 10. Ludwig’s distraught owner, Joe Petit, has said Ludwig and the dog’s sibling, Philotimo, are as sweet and harmless as kittens.

The Phippses, who have lived next door to Petit for 20 years, say the dogs are a menace. Eileen Phipps has called the reactions on social media to the shooting “beyond vicious and unfair.”

“My family is very thankful that the evidence proved that my husband was in fear for his life and acted in self-defense. We’re very thankful for the thorough investigation that was conducted by the Kane County sheriff’s office and the state’s attorney, Ms. Mosser,” Eileen Phipps said Wednesday afternoon. “Obviously, we regret that Mr. Petit’s dog lost its life, … but he should have taken steps to contain his pets.”

On Wednesday, Mosser and Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain said video surveillance from Petit’s property and the words from an independent witness support Hal Phipps’ story.

Phipps has told sheriff’s deputies he shot Ludwig on Aug. 10 after it and Philotimo came onto his property and approached aggressively, leaving him in fear for his life. Phipps filed a police report in June, alleging one of the dogs bit him at that time.

“Note that Mr. Phipps was so concerned for his own safety on his property that he began carrying a firearm with him while he was doing yard work,” Hain said.

Petit said that on the day Ludwig was shot, his dogs were with a close friend in the Fox River, which flows past Petit’s property. The friend, Kathleen Czaplewski, has said she was playing with Ludwig when she suddenly heard a “Pop! Pop! Pop!” The dog then fell lifeless into the river.

But investigators say Czaplewski’s story has changed over time and that she appeared “visibly intoxicated” immediately after the shooting. The video evidence, backed up by the independent witness, shows the dogs not initially in the water but running away from the line separating the Phipps’ property from Petit’s at the time of the shooting, investigators say.

Mosser noted how Ludwig’s death had shown how a community can come together to support “one of its own.”

“I hope that this support continues towards healing and not toward any further division, Mosser said.

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Andy Dalton won’t deny that playing his former team is special. But he’s been through it already. After being cut by the Bengals in April 2020, Dalton started for the Cowboys and beat the Bengals by 23 on Dec. 13 in Cincinnati.

“Luckily, I kind of got that out of the way last year,” the Bears quarterback said. “And now I’m just focused on doing what we can to win the game.”

Asked whether he had no extra motivation to play his old team again Sunday, the Bears quarterback smiled Wednesday.

“Well,” he said, “I wouldn’t say that.”

The Bears won’t dink-and-dunk as much Sunday against the Bengals, who play press coverage with one high safety and figure to dare them to go deep, as they did in the season opener against the Rams.

They’ll look different in Week 2 than they did in Week 1. The question is: will Dalton?

The Bears have more confidence in the veteran Dalton to pivot to the next opponent-specific game plan than they did in Mitch Trubisky. But they need Dalton to be perfect for their offense to hum along at a high level. And he wasn’t Sunday, particularly on fourth downs.

“I thought we moved the ball really well,” Dalton said. “When you look at what we were able to do, we had longer drives. Going back to that defense, that’s what they make you do. … We went for it on fourth down, Weren’t able to get it.

“We make one or two of those, and maybe that game is a little bit different.”

The Bears moved the ball — albeit terribly slowly — Sunday. That was part of the game plan against the blitz-happy Rams — to try to gain yards after the catch, not air yards. By that very narrow definition, they succeeded: the Bears held the ball for 11 minutes longer than the Rams did and punted only once. They didn’t go three-and-out a single time. Every drive but their last one ended up in Rams territory.

The Bears converted on 5-of-11 third downs, which receiver Allen Robinson called “the No. 1 encouraging thing.” David Montgomery ran for 108 yards, the second-most of any running back in Week 1.

In the broader sense, though, it doesn’t matter one whit. The Bears scored only 14 points. They averaged 4.71 yards per play, which would have been the fifth-worst performance of their 2020 season.

“It only counts if you score enough points,” offensive coordinator Bill Lazor said. “And we didn’t. We obviously break down every area, and there were some positives that came out of it. But big picture, that’s not enough to win an NFL game.”

Dalton pointed to fourth downs.

Halfway through the first quarter, he took the shotgun snap on fourth-and-4 in and looked right. With Rams linebacker Troy Reeder blitzing over left guard, tight end Cole Kmet was open, crossing right to left. Dalton, though, threw to Allen Robinson on a hot route. The pass was slightly behind him, hit Robinson in both hands and fell incomplete.

On the next fourth-and-4 of the quarter, running back David Montgomery motioned to Dalton’s right as the ball was snapped. Dalton made his first read — to a covered Robinson on a slant — and then looked right. When he decided to check it down to Montgomery, he was hit as he threw, fumbling the ball.

“I had a contested play on the first one and we weren’t able to convert,” Dalton said. “The second one, if I woulda had just a half-second longer and I don’t get hit from behind, David Montgomery is wide open. There’s another conversion.

“There’s like little things we can go back and look at and say, ‘Hey, if we can do this just a little bit better, these conversions,’ then … it can change the course and the outcome of the game.”

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A 17-year-old boy wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in South Chicago has died.

Michael Montgomery was standing on a sidewalk about 12:26 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Manistee Avenue when two males fired shots in his direction, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The teen was struck in the leg and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.

He was pronounced dead at 4:14 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He died of multiple gunshot wounds, an autopsy found.

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A string of paintball attacks have been recently reported in the West Town and Wicker Park neighborhoods.

About 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, someone in a dark-colored SUV fired paintballs and struck several people standing on the sidewalk in the 1800 and 2000 blocks of West Division Street, Chicago police said.

About 4 a.m. Friday, a 45-year old woman was sleeping on a bench in the 100 block of North Western Avenue when someone in a car shot a paintball at her, police said.

She was struck in the face and taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized, police said.

No injuries were reported in Tuesday night’s incident, and there is no one in custody for either attack.

Last fall, 208 paintball shootings were reported across the city in September and October, according to police records — nearly five times the number of attacks reported between January and August of that year.

Police noted a particular uptick in attacks during the weeks leading up to Halloween.

“Using a paintball gun on an unsuspecting person is not only reckless, but also extremely dangerous,” Chicago police said in a statement last fall. “The projectiles can cause serious injuries and the shooter can be charged with a felony. CPD urges residents to stay vigilant of your surroundings and report any suspicious activity to police.”

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He was standing on a sidewalk Tuesday afternoon in the 8000 block of South Manistee Avenue when two males fired shots in his direction, Chicago police said.

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Which coach had this to say after a recent loss?

“Nobody looks at our team and thinks, ‘Oh, I want to be like (them).’ “

And this?

“We didn’t have many players that showed up tonight.”

Surely it was Bears coach Matt Nagy, whose team inspired no one in a 34-14 loss to the Rams on Sunday night and whose players were there in name only. Surely Nagy had to be so frustrated by his team’s performance in the season opener that he wanted to let the world know of his dissatisfaction.

Well, no.

Actually, Nagy was the one who said a day after the Rams loss, “We like where our offense is at.”

Of the Bears’ defense, he said, “I’d say the biggest theme for us would be, ‘No panic.’ “

The man publicly annoyed with his players’ effort was Sky coach and general manager James Wade. His team had just lost to the Mystics, putting its No. 6 seed in the upcoming WNBA playoffs at risk. Wade apparently hasn’t gotten the memo specifying that a coach’s job is to con the public and not hurt his players’ feelings.

I’d like to think that somehow, perhaps after several intense counseling sessions, Sky players will vote to put their damaged psyches aside and attempt to step on the court for their next game. Or, maybe, just maybe, they’ll understand that their coach is simply trying to get the best out of them.

As for Bears players, their self-esteem couldn’t be higher, thanks to Nagy’s sweet nothings. Worries for an offense that can’t seem to complete a pass longer than 10 yards? What worries!

We, the consumer, are not idiots. Bears players aren’t idiots, either, despite two defensive backs on Sunday forgetting to touch a fallen Rams receiver, who then got up and scored a touchdown. But Nagy keeps happy-talking all of us — media, fans and players — even as the unhappy truth is staring a hole through our foreheads.

This isn’t an overreaction to a bad loss, overreaction being what the NFL is all about.

This is an allergic reaction to the three years of nonsense coming out of the coach’s mouth.

I used to think Nagy’s window dressing was his Mitch Trubisky defense system at work, the coach hoping to shield a sensitive and overmatched quarterback from heavy mortar fire. Trubisky would have a bad game, and Nagy would use subsequent press conferences to compliment the kid’s film-study work, his practice habits, his personal hygiene, anything. But it wasn’t just his quarterback he wanted to protect. Every blundering player and every unfortunate result received the same cheery evaluation.

It’s become so normal for coaches to sugarcoat everything that a sort of mass numbing occurs. That’s their goal. Stupefied fans swallow the silliness, and coaches whose No. 1 goal in life is keeping their job smile to themselves.

That’s why Wade’s recent comments were so refreshing. Besides being frustrated with his team’s effort the other day, perhaps he saw an opportunity to motivate his team via his displeasure. Somewhere along the way, that approach became a no-no in the coaching world. Don’t lose the locker room, they’re told. You don’t want to lose a regular paycheck, they’re told. So they play it nice and safe.

When coaches come up with a slogan, you need a crowbar to remove it from their motivational toolboxes. For several years, Nagy’s advice to himself and his players has been to “Be You.” Two things: That approach hasn’t worked. And it’s OK to be something you’re not once in a while to shake things up.

Nagy and general manager Ryan Pace love to gush about the franchise’s culture, but they’re not so big on accountability when things go wrong. The error in their thinking is the idea that public honesty is a bad thing. No one is telling Nagy to be a jerk. No one is telling him to roll up a newspaper and bop the family dog’s nose in front of everyone. We’re telling him that truth isn’t the enemy and, more, that it might even be a good thing for his players. If he had said to reporters after the Rams game, “We were terrible on defense,” no one would have argued and not one of his players would have been reduced to a puddle of tears.

Here was Bears safety Tashaun Gipson telling it like it is the other day: “Sometimes the film isn’t as bad as you thought. Today was.”

I’m guessing he and his teammates survived the truth of the Rams tape. And I’m guessing that they’d not only survive public honesty from Nagy, they’d put it to good use. His see-no-evil approach to press conferences has been a failure.

If he ever took the time to self-scout, he’d know this.

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The family of a 19-year-old college student who drowned after jumping off a pier at a Rogers Park beach last month is suing the Chicago Park District because, they say, had there been life rings available his death could have been prevented.

Miguel Angel Cisneros had graduated from St. Ignatius College Prep and was excited to depart Sept. 4 for his sophomore year at Columbia University in New York City, where he’d earned a scholarship. He spent his freshman attending classes remotely.

But he drowned Aug. 22 while swimming off a pier at Toby Prinz Beach Park near Pratt Boulevard and Sheridan Road.

Witnesses saw him jump into Lake Michigan and he immediately got caught in a riptide. They looked for something to throw to him and there was nothing, according to family attorney Jeffrey Kroll.

Neighbors previously installed life rings near the location, but the park district removed them.

A spokeswoman for the park district didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The park district has previously said that swimming and diving off the pier are not allowed nor is swimming at the nearby beach when a lifeguard is not on duty, and the presence of life rings might encourage such behavior.

Facing community pressure, the park district backpedaled and installed life rings at the pier and nearby beach and announced plans last week to install life rings at all staffed beaches.

Faded markings that warned against swimming off the pier have been repainted, and new signs have also gone up.

Miguel’s mother, Maria Diaz, wants more. She wants life rings installed along the city’s entire waterfront, and she hopes the lawsuit over her son’s death will force the issue.

“This is not only about Miguel,” she said. “It’s about preventing other families from going through this tragedy.”

Diaz said her son, who knew how to swim and was known as Mikey, was the first student from Burroughs Elementary, a public school in Brighton Park, to attend St. Ignatius, an elite private high school, where he rowed on the school’s crew team.

She said no words can describe her loss.

“It hurts when I don’t get that phone call saying ‘Hey, mama bear. How are you doing?’ and it breaks me down,” she said.

Kroll called the park district’s stance against installing life rings a “cop-out.”

“That’s ridiculous,” he said. “They know people swam there. It’s like putting a fire alarm in a building and saying it will encourage people to start fires. It’s a safety device. It’s like a seat belt.”

He said the park district didn’t want life rings due to concerns the devices would leave them exposed to legal liability.

“They’re making a decision about liability without concerning the lives of their citizens,” he said.

“This was preventable, it was an obvious problem and it was predictable and this was a recipe for disaster and they buried their head,” he said.

Maria Diaz talks about her lawsuit against the Chicago Parks District over the drowning of her son, Miguel Cisneros. With Diaz, from left, are Elizabeth Kaveny, Miguel Cisneros, Olivia Sarmas and Jeff Kroll. Mark Capapas/Sun-Times

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Robert Falls, who spent 35 years as the creative force behind Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is stepping down as artistic director effective next summer, it was announced Wednesday. The move will coincide with the end of the 2021-2022 season.

In addition, Falls will program the 2022-2023 season and direct two productions therein.

“After what has been a thrilling and rewarding journey, I feel it’s time for us both to move on to new adventures. For me, a new chapter of professional opportunities awaits — including creative projects I’ve previously been unable to accept. I love this theater with all my heart; it’s been an artistic home, and it will be a bittersweet departure,” Falls said via statement.

Falls amassed one of the most successful and critically acclaimed careers in theater over the course of his more than three decades at the Goodman. He was inducted in to the Theater Hall of Fame in 2016. His industry accolades include multiple Jeff Awards, Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards. Most notable: his Goodman-to-Broadway Tony Award-winning productions of “Death of a Salesman” and “Long Day’s Journey into Night.” The Goodman produced more than 150 world or American premieres under his leadership.

“When Robert Falls became artistic director in 1986, he brought a host of ideas that would transform our theater and our industry. Bob believed that the Goodman should be a place where all members of our community could see themselves and their experiences reflected on stage,” said Goodman Theatre’s executive director Roche Schulfer.

In a 2017 interview with the Sun-Times, Falls reflected on his-then 30-year tenure at the helm of the theater company, specifically the evolution Goodman experienced under his leadership. “Over the 30 years I’ve tried to balance the seasons between new works and classic plays, and enlarge the repertoire with [a wide variety] of writers. Clearly diversity has played a greater and greater role in our seasons. The complexity of Chicago needed to be reflected on our stages. And over the years, works by writers of color, works by women, works by people whose voices may not have been heard on stages before became and still are increasingly important here.”

In early script-reading sessions for Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” in 1986, Brian Dennehy (left) and director Robert Falls discuss the actor’s approach to the title role.Sun-Times File

Other highlights of Falls’ credits at the Goodman include “Luna Gale,” “King Lear,” “Galileo,” “The Seagull,” “Dollhouse,” ‘Uncle Vanya,” “Desire Under the Elms,” “The Night of the Iguana” and “Pal Joey.” It was his creative relationship with the late Brian Dennehy that produced some of his greatest work, notably their collaborations on “Death of a Salesman” and “The Iceman Cometh.”

“I’ve been very lucky to work with the extraordinary people I’ve worked with, from actors, to playwrights to set designers and everyone who brings a production to the stage,” Falls said in that 2017 interview.

Wednesday’s statement said the Goodman will undertake “a wide-ranging search” for Falls’ successor.

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The latest rankings of Illinois high school football teams in each class, according to an Associated Press panel of sportswriters.

Class 8A

1. Maine South (8) (3-0) 107 2
2. Marist (1) (3-0) 96 3
3. Naperville Central (2) (2-1) 74 1
4. Warren (2-1) 73 4
5. Neuqua Valley (3-0) 64 5
6. Lincoln-Way East (2-1) 53 T6
(tie) Glenbard West (3-0) 53 T6
8. Bolingbrook (3-0) 26 8
9. Homewood-Flossmoor (3-0) 21 9
10. South Elgin (3-0) 12 NR

Others receiving votes: Hinsdale Central 7, Oswego East 5, Lockport 5, Glenbard East 4, O’Fallon 4, Edwardsville 1.

Class 7A

1. Loyola (11) (3-0) 119 1
2. Mount Carmel (1) (3-0) 107 2
3. Brother Rice (3-0) 98 3
4. Batavia (3-0) 82 7
5. Wheaton North (2-1) 53 5
6. Hersey (3-0) 49 8
7. St. Rita (1-2) 39 4
8. Wheaton Warrenville South (2-1) 25 NR
9. Pekin (3-0) 22 10
(tie) Normal (3-0) 22 NR(tie) St. Charles North (2-1) 22 6

Others receiving votes: Hononegah 13, Buffalo Grove 5, Prospect 4.

Class 6A

1. Cary-Grove (6) (3-0) 123 1
2. Kankakee (3-0) 99 2
3. East St. Louis (7) (2-1) 95 1
4. Crete-Monee (2-1) 92 3
5. Lemont (3-0) 73 4
6. Springfield (3-0) 65 5
7. Prairie Ridge (3-0) 62 7
8. Washington (2-1) 26 8
9. Crystal Lake Central (2-1) 18 6
10. Lake Forest (2-1) 15 9

Others receiving votes: Vernon Hills 14, Kenwood 11, Simeon 6, Richards 4, Belvidere North 3, Grayslake 3, Chatham Glenwood 2, Wauconda 2, Harlem 1, Carmel 1.

Class 5A

1. Rochester (11) (2-1) 110 2
2. Providence (2-1) 96 4
3. Fenwick (2-1) 70 3
4. Marion (3-0) 61 5
5. Mascoutah (3-0) 55 6
6. Sycamore (2-1) 46 8
7. Peoria (2-1) 45 7
8. Morris (3-0) 43 9
9. Metamora (3-0) 30 T10
10. Marmion (3-0) 19 NR

Others receiving votes: Sterling 10, Morgan Park 7, Streator 6, Glenbard South 3, Decatur MacArthur 2, Mahomet-Seymour 2.

Class 4A

1. Joliet Catholic (13) (3-0) 130 1
2. Sacred Heart-Griffin (2-1) 107 2
3. Richmond-Burton (3-0) 101 3
4. St. Francis (2-1) 91 5
5. Quincy Notre Dame (3-0) 85 4
6. Genoa-Kingston (3-0) 59 6
7. Bethalto Civic Memorial (3-0) 35 NR
8. Phillips (1-2) 28 10
9. Coal City (2-1) 21 8
10. Dixon (3-0) 17 NR
(tie) Mt. Zion (2-1) 17 7

Others receiving votes: Stillman Valley 7, Hyde Park 6, Murphysboro 4, Carterville 3, Breese Central 2, Peoria Notre Dame 1, Cahokia 1.

Class 3A

1. Wilmington (9) (3-0) 117 1
2. Princeton (3) (3-0) 107 2
3. Monticello (3-0) 91 3
4. Tolono Unity (3-0) 77 4
5. Williamsville (2-1) 70 5
6. Byron (3-0) 55 7
7. Farmington (3-0) 42 8
8. Mt. Carmel (3-0) 40 9
9. Montini (1-2) 26 6
10. Durand (3-0) 11 NR

Others receiving votes: Reed-Custer 7, Benton 6, Paxton-Buckley-Loda 3, Peotone 3, Nashville 2, Wheaton Academy 2, Carlinville 1.

Class 2A

1. Decatur St. Teresa (9) (3-0) 117 1
2. IC Catholic (3) (3-0) 108 2
3. Maroa-Forsyth (3-0) 96 3
4. Breese Mater Dei (3-0) 83 4
5. Rockridge (2-1) 57 T6
6. Downs Tri-Valley (3-0) 55 5
7. Bismarck-Henning (3-0) 49 T6
8. Pana (3-0) 34 8
9. Sterling Newman (2-1) 25 9
10. Rushville-Industry (3-0) 10 10

Others receiving votes: Tremont 8, Knoxville 7, Bishop McNamara 6, Clifton Central 3, Athens 1, Johnston City 1.

Class 1A

1. Lena-Winslow (11) (3-0) 119 2
2. Moweaqua Central A&M (1) (2-1) 92 1
(tie) Mt. Sterling (Brown County) (3-0) 92 3
4. Cumberland (3-0) 75 6
5. Aurora Christian (3-0) 73 7
6. Camp Point Central (3-0) 59 8
7. Fulton (2-1) 38 T4
8. Carrollton (2-1) 24 9
9. Winchester West Central (3-0) 22 NR
10. Kewanee (Wethersfield) (2-1) 19 T4

Others receiving votes: Forreston 18, Greenfield-Northwestern 7, Princeville 6, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley 5, Ottawa Marquette 5, St. Bede 4, Abingdon 2.

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